Publications by authors named "Alex Stine"
Article Synopsis
- The study explores how parents' preferences for genetic testing information are influenced by the severity of genetic disorders in their children.
- Parents prioritized knowing the likelihood of developing a severe disorder, even if it caused them distress.
- The findings highlight the importance of understanding these preferences to better support parents in decision-making regarding genetic testing.
Background: Physician-targeted prescription drug advertisements sometimes include price comparisons between products that may misleadingly imply equivalence of efficacy and safety or misrepresent true savings, suggesting the potential utility of a context statement to explain what the claims do and do not mean.
Methods: We manipulated the presence of a price claim and a context statement in a 1 × 3 (control condition, price-comparison-only, price-comparison-plus-context) between-subjects design. Physicians ( = 1,438), randomly assigned to condition, viewed the prescription drug ad and answered a brief survey.